Monday, May 30, 2016

No one benefits when you drop your used clothing in a Planet Aid box. And it also gets millions from the U.S. government (that be us).

"Reveal and NBC Washington dug up IRS records
showing that Planet Aid makes up to $42 million per year. That money is
supposed to be donated to needy communities in places like Malawi and
Mozambique. But in an FBI file on Planet Aid’s parent organization also
obtained by NBC, investigators wrote that “Little to no money goes to
the charities.”

Planet Aid seems to be controlled by a Danish organization known
alternately as Tvind or The Teachers Group, which was founded in the
1970s by a man named Mogens Amdi Petersen. According to Danish court
documents, Tvind is a kind of secular, ostensibly humanitarian cult, in
which members are instructed to live collectively, “transfer all their
available income to joint savings,” and “forgo their personal rights,
such as the right to start a family to their own wish.” Petersen himself
is an internationally wanted man, having allegedly committed fraud and
tax evasion and his home country, and the NBC report speculates that he
may be hiding out in a $25 million, 494-acre compound in Baja, Mexico."

I donate to the Discovery Shop (cancer), Volunteers of America, and to our church's resale shop and food pantry. There are so many scams and non-profits so poorly checked, that you really need to do your own investigation.